Question about the size of 4.7gb dvd+R..

[imported_K3N]

**sorry about asking this in another forum, i just didn't know the right place to post it.

Im planning on burning a complete anime series. I need to if a 4.7GB dvd+r can hold 4.7gb of data? i heard that the maximum size of data these dvd+r can hold was actually 4.37GB, is this true?

I saw an anime that was 4.43GB, im really wondering if it would fit, on a normal dvdR...

 

[allanon1965]

it will fit, I have been converting my VHS to DVD and had a few that actually were over 4.7 GB and they still burned to the 4.7 and play fine......

 

[Bozo Galora]

A 4.7 base10 "GigaByte" DVD will hold around 4.31 Gibbibytes BASE2 data

1,000,000,000 base 10 bytes
divided by base2^30, 1073741824 =
.9313 conversion factor

4.7 * .9313 = 4.377

less lead in and lead out and close = ~4.31

So it now depends on where you got the data - from HDD or Bin file or DVD etc. - which tells you whether it exists as base 10 or base 2

Many peeps try to burn 4.7 binary file on DVD and get "put another disc in" message, or error, or cant be seen in DVD drive after burn.

I always make my O/S partitions as 4,450MB with HDD formatting utility, which makes it actually 4.144 binary, transferrable to DVD as backup with a safety factor of ~200MB

 

[imported_K3N]

Alright thanks for the reply, and also the information, Bozo. I appreciate it alot 🙂